Questions tagged [xml]
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a structured document format that defines human- and machine-readable encoding rules.
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C# addXmlDefinition method
I have this methods that take in a xml file and add XDeclaration for utf-8. I want to optimize the code because it need to ...
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Python script to read an XML file and write some information to an Excel file
I'm getting an XML file from an application, want to extract some information from that file and write it to an Excel file. The XML file contains data about vacations. I need data from the last month ...
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Retrieve data from an XML file in Java
few months back I did a code test for a company and I quickly managed to solve it within 5-10 minutes. But, I got rejected because it wasnt "good enough".
What is good enough? they said its ...
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Parse give CSV of UK phone numbers, filter non-conforming numbers and output XML of correct numbers
This script takes a CSV of numbers and processes them to check to see if the numbers conform to the UK standard 11 digit numbers. Any errors are outputted to a log and the correct numbers sent to an ...
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Extracting authors and books from XML and inserting them into PostgreSQL
There is a tree of start folder, it's subfolders, their subfolders, etc. In each folder, subfolder, etc. there are the same structured XML files stored.
books.xml
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Traverse/transform (xml) tree
I am trying to write a utility for transforming xml trees using single pass and specifying node handlers.
I used pugixml prior to this, and the library provides a ...
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Parsing an XML tree of categories
I have parse function which is parsing tree of categories. I've written it in simplest way possible and now struggling with refactoring it.
Every nested loop is doing the same stuff but appending ...
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XML Schema for version numbers
I started this side project years ago. The goal is to eventually provide tooling that can process version strings based on the schema defined in an XML file (example provided below). I wrote this XSD ...
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Bot gets data of sitemap, parses it and send message to Telegram channel
UPDATED - 25-12-2021
Summary:
Renamed start.py --> bot.py
Modified a lot of code in bot.py
Modified code in sitemap.py
Created init.py
Check the update code in the bottom of this question.
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Extract series of XML elements' values into an array
This code needs to extract data from in XML file.
Specifically it needs to iterate over it, looking for a node called CHARGE_CODES that repeats over and over and ...
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Python script to parse XML file into Json
How are you doing? I have to make a script to parse an xml input file to a json file. I tried to do my best, but it will be nice if you could check it and help me to improve it. The idea is that I don'...
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Is this a good design for runtime Macro execution?
I am developing a system for runtime macro executions in an automatic test environment. Macros are defined in an xml and are for configuring multiple devices/DUTs for a specific use case.
The xml ...
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Parsing a large XML file and storing in Postgres efficiently using Pythonic code
I have a bunch of large XML files that I have to parse and store in Postgres. I have done a lot of procedural code but I want to think in terms of objects and reap the benefits. Any help in that ...
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Read compressed XML file inside ZIP and parse data as fast as possible
I am trying to read and parse an XML file inside of a ZIP archive as fast as possible. The XML file is roughly 85GB in size, so I know for a fact that I/O also plays a role here, as I need to ...
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Enumerating ancestors in XSLT
I've been playing with some genealogical files in XML lately and wanted to create a transform that would list, for each person, the person's name, the count of ancestors, and the list of ancestors. ...
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Format potentially invalid XML
I'm working on an application that allows users edit/fix XML.
A part of this is to format the XML for better readability.
As the XML might be invalid, the existing methods I found for formatting (like ...
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Java CSV to XML converter
I'm relatively new to programming and I was trying to work a project.
I would like recommendations of how to annotate or comment my project and any improvement I could make to it, any suggestion is ...
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Handle missing children nodes when parsing XML into a dictionary
I work on a code-base that uses xml to set up problems and specify model parameters. I've created a script that I run in tandem with our code. This script will ...
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Organizing and accessing data in xml database - VB.Net
So I made an XML database for my music player where I store songs data (title,artist,album,genre,year) the code for generating the database is working but slow as heck, the code works as following ...
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Refactoring a class that counts xml dom nodes and caches the result
I saw this entertaining talk by: Bob Martin on clean code and started refactoring a relatively simple class today. I am, by no means, an expert on coding and still learning a lot every day, so I want ...
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Iteration over an XDocument based on some existing elements and conditions
I wrote this piece of code which works as expected:
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Parse XML data and update values of each node's children
The code below iterates through the nodes of an XML file and updates values based on a Regex expression in the rule child node from an XPath expression. XML is ...
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Powershell XML search performance
I am working on a utility to manage shared content libraries for Work from Home scenarios. Basically I have libraries of thousands of Autodesk Revit family files, and I want to host those files on AWS ...
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XML Tree Reformatter requested code. C#
So this is a post as per request in a different post on stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62412713/why-does-my-c-sharp-xml-code-only-work-when-i-enumerate-variable-enumerable. The ...
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Import huge XML data set into MongoDB while parsing data
I am currently working with the Stack Exchange Data Dump - to be more precise - with the dumped Posts.xml data set from Stack Overflow.
What am I trying to achieve?...
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Python function to find specific regex in the text of an XML document
I'm writing a code that, starting from an XML file:
stores the index of child elements of a tag and the child elements as
key, values in a dictionary (function ...
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Scheduled Notifications (First Android App)
I'm happy to present my first Android project, which collects market index data (three Asian indices) and fires a notificaiton every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7:30 AM displaying the data.
I've ...
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Function to parse an XML and find specific regex considering the size attribute of the document
I'm writing a code that, starting from an XML file:
stores the index of child elements of a tag and the child elements as
key, values in a dictionary (function ...
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How to divide this Python code into different functions?
I'm making a code that, starting from an xml file:
stores the index of child elements of a tag and the child elements as key, values in a dictionary;
deletes keys whose values contain a certain ...
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XML and XML schema definition
I want to define the XML schema for an XML representation of shopping
order data.
See following requirements
The XML representation of order should contain order id, description, request date,
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Custom view to select a value
I created a Custom view to select a value. I use horizontal Recyclerview to select an integer value and 2 buttons that decrease or increase the values. Could you consider the code and tell how it can ...
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XML attribute analysis
To begin, I have an XML file at /Users/gaze/lab/lab/gpib_lib/out.xml that contains lines like...
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Improving loop through xml files ad add to DF
With this code, i loop through similar xml files and add them to a DataFrame.
How can i make this code better so it is more pythonic?
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Extract data from API using VBA & XML (Performance)
EDIT: Added a block with the raw code at the bottom (suggested by a friendly user)
First post here. I sincerely hope that I am doing everything by the book. Also, I want to thank you in advance for ...
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Performance - Read large amount of XMLs and load into single csv
I am dealing with a large amount of XML files which I obtained from here https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/resources/download#DownloadAllData. The download yields around 300.000 XML files of similar ...
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Make my XML Parser in Java using WoodStox run faster and use less memory, or just generally better
I have an XML Parser in Java using WoodStox that I wrote. This parser is going to be parsing through extremely large files, could be 5+GB. The goal of the parser is to convert a nest XML file into a ...
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File size when parsing XML
The code below takes a directory of XML files and parses them into a CSV file.
Right now parsing around 60 XML files is fast and the output is a CSV file that is around 250MB.
That is a really big ...
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Escaping invalid XML characters (e.g. for the Java DOM API)
I want to save and load an arbitrary Java String in a Text node in a XML file using the Java DOM API.
The ...
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Starting an activity after 1000ms from a splash screen with Runnable and Handler().postDelayed
I have implemented a splash screen which is the main activity of my Android app. This splash screen shows an image, and after 1000ms there is an animation to show another activity's layout.
The code ...
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Reduce cluttering in a VPN initialization dance implementation (html, xml extraction and api calls) in Go
I'm still rather new to Go and I wanted to convert a part of a Python script I wrote a while ago to perform the VPN initialization dance (basically a set of API calls + parsing to fetch an auth cookie ...
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Slow parsing of mutiple XML files to CSV
The code below is written as part of a parser, which files would be also added here: XMLParser, parser, Name, GenericElement, attrib
It reads an XML files from a folder, turn them into a dataframe ...
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XML parser + bs4 combo
I just wrote a short function to parse SO jobs XML feed and return dicts containing information about each job entry.
Now, each job entry page is visited to grab info not present in the xml feed (...
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Enables markup to instantiate objects, call methods, and generate HTML
I created this package PXP.
PXP enables markup to instantiate objects, call methods, and generate
HTML. It works similar to a server-side templating engine, but rather
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XML DTD for downloadable stories [closed]
I want to make sure that I am writing the code correctly and fully understand what is needed. My biggest concern is what tags to use, (? ...
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Reduce the execution time utilizing two apis
I am new to python. I have been given a task to verify the data from 2 apis which give similar data but in different format i.e. Json and XML. I have written the code but it is taking too much time to ...
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Modern HTTP-Requests for login/register system
I am working on a login/register system and want the register and log in process as smooth as possible. One way of making it smoother is in my opinion to make a multi-step login/register.
What I ...
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Convert generic class into XML string of specific structure
There is a need to have a specific structure of XML string when interacting with 3rd party system. Here are two examples:
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OOP parsing for DB dump XML Python
I am parsing large XML (DB dump). So, the content looks like many different objects with their properties and dependencies (foreign keys). My way to do it - using lxml.etree (iterparse):
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